Lecture Notes in Computer Science

interactions, Internet applications,QoSmanagement,policy-basedmanagement,interactivemulti- dia,tele-learningapplications,andcomputertelephonyintegration. August2001 SamuelPierreandRochGlitho Organizing Committee General Chair: SamuelPierre ´ EcolePolytechniquedeMontr´eal,Canada Program Chair: RochGlitho EricssonResearchCanada Tutorial Co-Chairs: Jean-CharlesBernard ´ EcolePolytechniquedeMontr´eal,Canada WilfriedG. Probst Universit´eduQu´ebec`aMontr´eal,Canada ThomasM. Chen SouthernMethodistUniversity,USA PublicityCo-Chairs: RamiroLiscano MitelCorporation,Canada LarbiEsmahi NationalResearchCouncilofCanada Geng-ShengKuo NationalCentralUniversity,Taiwan AntonioLiotta UniversityofSurrey,UK Local Management Committee ´ Jean-CharlesBernard,EcolePolytechniquedeMontr´eal,Canada DenisMonette,EricssonResearchCanada RochGlitho,EricssonResearchCanada ´ SabineK´ebreau,EcolePolytechniquedeMontr´eal,Canada RaymondL´evesque,BureaudesCongr`esUniversitaires,Canada VII Program Committee A. L. Ananda,NUS,Singapore ´ J. -C. Bernard,EcolePolytechniquedeMontr´eal,Canada A. Bieszczad,LucentTechnologies,USA R. Boutaba,UniversityofWaterloo,Canada J. Delgado,UniversitatPompeuFabra,Barcelona,Spain P. Dini,CiscoSystemsInc. ,USA L. Esmahi,NRC,Canada B. Falchuk,Bellcore,USA N. Fonseca,Unicamp,Brazil V. Gay,UTS,Australia M. -P. Gervais,LIP6,France R. Glitho,EricssonResearchCanada T. Gray,MitelCorp,Canada C. Grossner,NortelNetworks,Canada ´ H. H. Hoang,EcolePolytechniquedeMontr´eal,Canada E. Horlait,LIP6,France J. G. Hulaas,UniversityofGeneva,Switzerland R. Impey,NRC,Canada I. Jabbari,GeorgeMasonUniversity,USA P. Joye,UniversityofAppliedSciencesofWesternSwitzerland A. Karmouch,UniversityofOttawa,Canada R. Liscano,MitelCorporation,Canada T. Magedanz,IKV++GMD,Germany C. Petitpierre,SwissFederalInstituteofTechnology,Switzerland ´ A. Quintero,EcolePolytechniquedeMontr´eal,Canada S. Soulhi,EricssonCanada J. -F. Wagen,Univ. ofAppliedSciencesofWesternSwitzerland MATAWorkshop SteeringCommittee EricHorlait,LIP6,France RogerImpey,NRC,Canada AhmedKarmouch,UniversityofOttawa,Canada ThomasMagedanz,IKV++GMD,Germany Table of Contents DynamicCongestionAvoidanceUsingMulti-agentSystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 N. Rouhana,E. Horlait UseofAgentsforResolvingFeatureInteractions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .